Annotating tools are a must have for every teacher. I personally can't imagine myself surfing online with no web tools to help me annotate, highlight, clip, and share parts or segments of the web content I find interesting. Most of the browsers nowadays particularly Chrome and Firefox have specific extensions for this purpose. All you need to do is install one of them and there you go, with one click you can master the information you read.

Advantages of the use of annotation tools in education

Educause
(2009) describes the following advantages of using annotation tools in
education:

1.The activity of adding reflections move students from
being passive consumers of information to active readers engaged in
scholarly discussions.

2.Collaborative annotation tools offer new ways for students
to work collaboratively to find and evaluate information, share ideas,
and create knowledge.

3.Collaborative annotation tools facilitate the incremental growth of information
as users review others’ thoughts on a resource before adding their own. By
providing the ability to designate who is allowed access to collections of
resources, these tools reinforce the character of a cohesive group.

4.Because
they are web-based, collaborative annotation applications can be
made available to a global community, inviting experts in academic disciplines
to provide valuable insight on students’ efforts.

5.As students collectively annotate,
organize, and add value to existing resources, they learn how to sift,
evaluate, and contribute. When instructors use these tools over time, student
efforts might constitute an archive or library of remarks so that subsequent
classes can benefit from the observations of their predecessors.

Educational uses of Annotating Tools

Collaborative annotation
tools are a social starting place for immersing students in the scholarly
practice of research and annotation, while encouraging them to share information
and build on the work of others in a dynamic community of thought. With tools
like Diigo,students might have the opportunity to collaborate on the
interpretation of resources in ways not possible inside a classroom or with
printed materials that should not be written in, such as library books. In
addition, while scholars have found in the web an unparalleled information resource,
using it effectively depends on tools that help organize the data and simplify
the process of locating resources when they are needed. These tools empower
users, giving them the capability of commentary and reflection rather than
restricting it to authors and website creators. Finally, academics across
disciplines and institutions value these tools and the accumulated observations
of instructors, experts, and peers that they facilitate (Educause 2009)

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